Wearable chips allow for personal networking

November 14, 2003 | Source: KurzweilAI

nTags, which are wearable devices with chips programmed with personal interests and background, are being used at conferences like Pop!Tech as a new form of personal networking.

Data and alerts appear on the small monochrome LCD screen of the nTAGs, which are made by nTAG Interactive. The devices have 128 kilobytes of RAM and 64 kilobytes of flash memory — about enough to store 60 pages of text as an electronic file.

The innovation is described in the November 15 issue of New Scientist.

New Scientist press release